A better understanding of how biodiversity forms and is maintained is critical for informing our conservation efforts. Useful tools for achieving this are models of community assembly which help identify the dominant processes in different ecosystems. Neutral models in particular, have the benefit of being simple, tractable, mechanistic models that can produce good fits to empirical data for many different ecological communities.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:bl.uk/oai:ethos.bl.uk:493603 |
| Date | January 2008 |
| Creators | Rosindell, James Lloyd |
| Publisher | University of Leeds |
| Source Sets | Ethos UK |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
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